Address and additional details will be provided for each event upon registration.
For the comfort of all, we ask that you not bring guest dogs onto the property. If you have a service dog, please contact us to discuss prior to registering for an event. Thanks!
We would like our events to be as accessible as possible and don’t intend the cost to be a barrier. If the cost is prohibitive, please email us to talk about other ways you can contribute.
Upcoming events
Join us for a series of mini-retreats as we use the quiet of winter to rest, restore, and revitalize!
Register for any three and receive a discount!
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CULTIVATING CALM: A Mindful Garden Planning Retreat
Sunday, March 2
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Join us for a peaceful nurturing retreat as we connect with nature, cultivate mindfulness and plan our summer gardens.
Bring your imagination, your graph paper, seed catalogues, magazines, whatever inspires you! If you have seeds bring them along for a seed exchange!
No place to garden? How about starting some containers? Or talk to me about tending some space here at Dragonfly Farms!
Cost: $25 includes snacks, morning beverages and a vegetarian lunch.
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SPRING INTO BALANCE: Cloche Making and Forest Bathing
Saturday, March 22
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Celebrate the arrival of spring with a day of creativity and connection to nature!
We’ll make beautiful and functional garden cloches to protect our tender spring plants, and then venture onto the land for a tranquil forest bathing experience, immersing ourselves in the sights, sounds, scents and textures of Dragonfly Farms.
Cost: $35 includes snacks, morning beverages, a vegetarian lunch, and all the supplies for your garden cloche.
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Crusts and Giggles- A Slice of Wellness
Saturday, April 5
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
We may have missed Pi Day, but let’s celebrate spring together!
This mini-retreat will offer the perfect blend of creativity, relaxation and joy.
Alice Nichols will guide us through the art of creating a perfect pie from scratch, and Julie Schreiber will lead us in a laughter yoga class to boost our mood and energize our spirits.
Come for the pie, stay for the laughs, and leave with a slice of wellness!
Cost: $50 includes snacks, morning beverages, a vegetarian lunch and your pie to take home
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Knitting and Kneading
This retreat has passed, but please take a look at our other offerings coming up!
Saturday, Feb 1
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Join us as we cozy up midway between winter solstice and spring equinox! Learn the basics of knitting and bake a miniature loaf of bread.
Snacks, morning beverages and a vegetarian lunch are provided.
$50 includes knitting and breadmaking supplies (please choose the add-on when you register)
$25 if you bring your own needles and yarn (a supply list will be provided once you register)
Past events
Revealing Your Still Small Voice
May 25-28, 2023
“Revealing Your Still Small Voice” was Dragonfly Farms’ inaugural offering. During a four-day meditation and writing retreat held over the Jewish Holiday of Shavuot, Joanne Gartenberg and Judy Fisher took participants on a journey from slavery to freedom through meditation, writing, prayer and song.
July 9, 2023
Five to Thrive
“Five to Thrive” was a wellness workshop with Drs. Lorin Boynton and Joanne Gartenberg, where we explored the 5 domains of health (nutrition, relaxation, sleep, exercise and connectedness/purpose) through teaching and direct experience.
FEBRUARY 16-19, 2024
SING YOUR STORY
August 19th, 2023
Rosh Chodesh Elul Shabbaton
September 23, 2023
Autumnal Equinox Retreat
October 21, 2023
Cultivating Community
March 3, 2024
Comfort Shawl workshop
June 9, 2024
Concert at the Farm
June 11, 2024
Family Shavuot Potluck and Ashkenasi Herbalism
June 22, 2024
SUMMER sOLSTICE tEA PARTY
Dragonfly Farms welcomed Congregation Kol Ami for a day of reflection and learning in preparation for the Days of Awe/High Holidays. Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg, Marge Eiseman, and Joanne Gartenberg led us in prayer and Torah study. Following a tasty lunch we explored Elul through music, mindfulness, and creation of an Elul journal.
Chef Lindsey Stillian of Thriving Bite prepared a beautiful and delicious seasonal tasting menu for us, and we discussed ways of eating in keeping with the change of season. We explored the bounty of Dragonfly Farms, and guests went home with full tummies, yummy recipes, and apples they harvested themselves!
Katie Vincent of Tending Alive and Joanne Gartenberg of Dragonfly Farms offered a retreat of radical rest and play to find pathways into ecological belonging in our challenging times. We engaged in mindfulness and embodiment practices, and explored our relationships to ourselves, each other, and the Land. We learned about ecological gardening, planted a food forest, and nourished ourselves with locally-grown foods and herbal teas.
Christine Lehman and Joanne Gartenberg led participants in a 4 day intensive of self-discovery through journaling, singing and mindfulness meditation practices. At the end of the offering, participants shared an arc of their life story through narrative and song. We hope to offer this at Dragonfly Farms again next summer, and at Chris’s studio in Encinitas, California next winter!
Marge Eiseman has been traveling around the country for the past several months on a “Tour de Force for Good”, facilitating discussions about how we can do better in our present world. We were fortunate to host her at Dragonfly Farms during a brief stop at “home” for this workshop in which we shared stories of love and loss. We created symbols which we appliqued onto a shawl, which we then blessed and gifted to Dragonfly Farms, to carry healing to all who are embraced by it. Particularly meaningful to me, we used borders from a set of pillowcases which my grandmother embroidered decades ago.
We were fortunate to host Claudia Russell and Bruce Kaplan on their Pacific Northwest tour.
The weather was beautiful, we shared a delicious potluck, made new friends, and enjoyed awesome music (and stories)!
We partnered once again with Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg and Kol Ami. After a communal meal, we learned about Jewish earth-based traditions, explored the history of Jewish healers, and met many of the plants used in Ashkenazi herbalism which are growing right here on Dragonfly Farms!
We were delighted to welcome back Chef Lindsey Stillian of Thriving Bite to help us celebrate the summer season. We had a tour of the farm and were able to sample strawberries and fresh herbs from the garden. Chef treated us to a feast for our eyes as well as our taste buds, prepared various teas and infusions blended to balance our chakras, and learned ways to harness this abundant solstice energy. We can’t wait for her to come back!
